T R Lakshmanan, William P Anderson, Yena Song

Knowledge Economy in the Megalopolis

Interactions of innovations in transport, information, production and organizations

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Produktbeschreibung

In recent decades urban regions around the world have engaged in a new process of development based on the creation of new knowledge. Amidst the globalization of economic activities and the arrival of transformative technologies, knowledge has become the key driver of competitiveness and is profoundly reshaping the patterns of economic growth an

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 327g
• ISBN-13: 9780367867928
• ISBN-10: 0367867923
• Artikelnr.: 58440805

Autorenporträt

T.R. Lakshmanan is Emeritus Professor and Director of the Centers of Energy, Environment, and Transport, Boston University, USA. William P. Anderson is Director of the Cross-Border Institute, University of Windsor, Canada. Yena Song is Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Chonnam National University, Korea (ROK).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction and Overview 2. Demographic, Urban, and Economic Evolution
in the Megalopolis 3. The General Purpose Technologies of Transport and ICT
and the Emergence of Globalized Economies 4. Structural Change and the Rise
of the Knowledge Economy: Underlying Technologies and Processes 5. The
Passage to the Knowledge Economy in the Megalopolis: The Empirical Record
6. The Spatial Evolution of the Megalopolis as a Functional Economic Region
7. Globalization and Rising Income Inequalities in the Megalopolis
Knowledge Economy 8. Conclusion